MatildathePirate

She/Her Mostly Arcane, but also lotr and pirate stuff (and occasionally even politics!) (Okay, at this point it's my main blog as the first one has been overtaken by mtg) Mentally unwell trans woman Banner - Martin Deschambault

[liliththeanarchist]

I probably just found my favorite Ukraine Anarchist song

Black army songs are so funny cuz Red Army and White Army songs make them seem like heros while Black Army songs are like

"Yeah we kill authoritarians, drink excessive amounts of alcohol, and fuck mad bitchs what about it?"

Obviously why anarchy and the Black Army is better, they don't exaggerate their heroics unlike statist that feel the need to make people see them as God like just so people can tolerate them

[stealingpotatoes]

was replaying assassins creed syndicate with @highladyofdusk last week

(tip jar! // comms status)

[oldpaintings]

The Duel and The Reconciliation, 1884 by Émile-Antoine Bayard (French, 1837–1891) 

[learntmyspots]

Photo credit to @glowstickblood

[strange-aeons]

Oh my god

[bedupolker]

Outside

[adventures-in-poor-planning]

op this is good commentary but I’m mostly just captivated by how you drew the kid as a teeny little grub with a propeller hat

[depsidase]

[flower-crowns-and-combat-boots]

Every time you have GenAI make you an anime waifu with three titties and a dumptruck ass a family doesn't get to have a drink or bathe.

Every time you ask Copilot to write you a PowerShell script to stroke your boss' ego, a city experiences a brownout.

Every time you chat with your AI "girlfriend" a farmer doesn't get to water their animals.

Using these tools actively hurts you and your community, while at the same time enriching some shitheel who would happily step on your neck to make an additional dollar. Don't use them. Actively remove them from devices you own. Disable them whenever possible. Go out of your way to avoid them. It's honestly not hard. You've been using the internet just fine without GenAI hallucinating at you.

[nearer-than-the-eye]

every time AMCA makes the cal kestis double jump joke i have to go back and read the og post

[matildathepirate]

RIP Ozzy

Some of my earliest memories are listening to Crazy Train with my dad - in the car, at night, even in the bath. My abnormal development side, he's always been really impactful to me and many others. Goodbye, man. We'll miss you

[thedemonlady]

Ozzy Osbourne 1948 - 2025

Rest in peace, Prince of Darkness.

📸 Photo taken by Ross Halfin

[gonetodash19]

RIP Ozzy

[matildathepirate]

At last! After months of work my glorious creation is complete! (Evil laughter)

My first major diy project, made over about two months for a total of around $30, including the jacket itself. 3/4s of the patches are also homemade.

[gruulanarch]

Updates

1: I've figured out that my magic is triggered by generally extreme emotions, and while I still can't total control it I'm getting better. Sure enough, it can empower me or my weapons as well as just creating destructive blasts!

2: After constant magical healing, I'm out of the wheelchair! I'll be resuming my journeys, but no longer just randomly wandering, because of

3: I've talked with (threatened) a "friend," who's given me outlines for a magical item that could potentially channel my power into opening temporary omenpaths (though I think it'd be in a fairly different manner than @obscura-omenseeker ), but I need to gather some things for it. I need a chunk of crystal that can conduct mana (preferably from ikoria), some ixalani gold artifacts from Azor's temple, Kaldheimr omen charts, and a planes-related item from Thunder Junction (or potentially a @strixhavens-best-printer copy). I can get some myself, but can people help out?

[ikoria-travel-tips]

I can provide he crystal, for a price…

(Please book a trip the office is almost under why does nobody want to visit the cracked out Australia plane)

[matildathepirate]

Um... I'm sorry to say we did that a while ago, but I've been thinking about coming back. Would it be possible to book some kind of tour?

[origamicrow]

take a break while watching this little bunny cross your dash

[blueiscoool]

Archaeologists Find 300-Year-Old Shipwreck in What Used to Be ‘One of the Baddest Pirate Lairs on Earth’

Pirates attacked the Portuguese warship, named the “Nossa Senhora do Cabo,” and made off with many of the treasures the ship was transporting from India to Portugal.

After years of research, archaeologists think they have discovered the remains of a lost ship that was attacked by pirates more than 300 years ago.

They say they’ve located the vessel—a Portuguese warship called Nossa Senhora do Cabo—near Madagascar, the island nation off the southeastern coast of Africa.

Nossa Senhora do Cabo, which translates to Our Lady of the Cape, is resting on the seafloor near Nosy Boraha, a small island off Madagascar’s east coast, reports Live Science’s Tom Metcalfe.

Researchers with the Massachusetts-based Center for Historic Shipwreck Preservation confirmed the vessel’s identity by analyzing historic documents, the size and shape of the hull, and the artifacts found nearby. Brandon Clifford, the center’s director and co-founder, and Mark Agostini, an archaeologist at Brown University, describe the find in the June issue of Wreckwatch magazine.

The Nossa Senhora do Cabo departed on her ill-fated final voyage from Goa to Lisbon in early 1721, when Goa was a Portuguese colony. The ship was transporting a variety of treasures from India, including gold and silver bars, textiles, jewels and religious artifacts. Archaeologists estimate the trove would be worth approximately $138 million today.

The outgoing Portuguese viceroy and the archbishop of Goa were also on board, along with approximately 200 enslaved individuals from Mozambique.

On April 8, 1721, pirates surrounded the 700-ton vessel while it was anchored near Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean. The Nossa Senhora do Cabo’s crew members couldn’t put up much of a fight: The vessel had been battered by a storm, and they had been forced to toss many of its cannons overboard to keep it afloat.

The raiders—including pirates Olivier Levasseur and John Taylor—sailed the Nossa Senhora do Cabo roughly 400 miles west toward Île Sainte-Marie. It was “one of the most dramatic episodes in all the wild years of the Golden Age of Piracy,” the researchers write in Wreckwatch magazine.

During the early 18th century, Île Sainte-Marie—now called Nosy Boraha—was a popular base for European pirates because of its proximity to major shipping lanes, its natural harbors and its lack of government oversight. At the time, the area was “one of the baddest pirate lairs on Earth, where legal traders never dared visit,” the researchers write in Wreckwatch magazine.

Once the pirates hauled off most of the Nossa Senhora do Cabo’s loot, they “needed to get rid of the evidence,” so they intentionally sunk the vessel, the researchers write. What happened to the enslaved individuals or the Archbishop of Goa isn’t clear, though the viceroy was ransomed for $2,000.

However, the pirates didn’t make off with all the Nossa Senhora do Cabo’s treasures. Researchers have recovered more than 3,300 artifacts from the wreck, including gold coins inscribed with Arabic, pieces of porcelain and religious figurines. They also found an ivory plaque with gold letters spelling out “INRI,” an abbreviation of the Latin phrase that means “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.”

Scientists may not recover additional artifacts from the wreck, as it’s now mostly covered in sand and silt, per Live Science. But they say at least four other pirate-plundered shipwrecks are lying on the seafloor near Île Sainte-Marie, just waiting to be explored.

By Sarah Kuta.

[vintage-tigre]

[matildathepirate]

If you're not taking off at least three band-aids before getting in the shower, you're doing life wrong.

[lordworm]

Reblog to make it die faster

[escuerzoresucitado]